STAGE IT.BEND IT.DONE.stage bending brings efficiency to the footlights

摘要

Years ago an operator might install a single punch and die set on a press brake and keep that tooling setup for days, even weeks. It exemplified the traditional view of production efficiency at its finest. But shrinking order sizes and lead times changed everything. A custom fabricator now might need to run 20 or more different jobs on the press brake over one shift, with many if not all calling for different tools-and all the changeover time that comes with them. Fabricators rarely can afford such inefficiency in time or labor.